NANNA HELLBERG
ABOUT || WORKS || MUSIC || CONTACT
BIOGRAPHY
Nanna Hellberg is an artist born in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied at
the Royal University College of Fine Art in Stockholm (MA) and participated
in the Sound Art program at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen
and the National Academy in Oslo (MA). Her work involves both artistic
production and experimental music practice – most recently as guitarist
in a kraut project. Her performance and video works draw inspiration from
autobiographical narratives as well as music and subcultures, religious
rituals and violence. On a thematic level there is a presence of mortality
in many of her works that refers to questions of self-destruction and
religious emotions. By recycling earlier performances she relates to a
history of violence with a physical expression reproduced for her own
themes. There is often a focus on the use and abuse of the female body
through a sublimated rage in performative rituals. Hellberg has exhibited
throughout Europe and her recent group exhibitions were held at Kunsthal
Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Konstakademien in Stockholm and the Museum
of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, DK..
CV
NANNA HELLBERG
Born 1980 in Stockholm, Sweden
EDUCATION
2007 – 2009 Sound Art, MFA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Oslo
National College of the Arts
2004 – 2009 MFA, Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm,
Sweden
SELECTED
EXHIBITIONS
2009 Kurye International Video Festival, Aksanat, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 Vårutställningen, KKH, Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Soundings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
2009 Forårsudstillningen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Open Studio, Atelier Nord, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2009 Double Speak, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
2008 Moving, Clarion Art Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Wundergrund, Mezzanin, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 In Fragments, Ada Street Gallery, London, UK
2008 Matchmaking, Dokkhuset, Trondheim, Norway, arranged by Trondheim
Electronic Arts Centre
2008 Meditations, solo, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Meditations, solo, Galleri Pictura, Lund, Sweden
2008 Pause For Thought, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 LARM, Ørestaden, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 Art Is Not Mute, Museum of Art, Uppsala, Sweden
2008 Teleport Färgfabriken, Färgfabriken Norr, Östersund,
Sweden, curated by CM von Hausswolff
2007 Art Is Not Mute, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Matchmaking, BLEST, Trondheim, Norway, arranged by Trondheim Electronic
Arts Centre
2007 Art Is Not Mute, Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros,
Hungary
2007 New Media Meeting, Flygeln, Norrköping, Sweden
2007 LOOP Video Festival, Auditori Hotel Catalonia Ramblas, Barcelona,
Spain
2007 Art Is Not Mute, Ersta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Entré för film, KCK, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Ex Archive, Former State Archive, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Supermarket Art Fair, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 I Sometimes See the Devil, solo, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 TRIAD (xpo-september), Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 1-2-3, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm, Sweden
DISCOGRAPHY
AND PRINTS
2009 Vårutställningen, catalogue, published by the Royal University
College of Fine Arts in Stockholm
2009 Soundings, catalogue and DVD, published by the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Roskilde
2009 Forårsudstillningen, catalogue, published by Kunsthal Charlottenborg
in Copenhagen
2008 9 Akter, audio CD and book-box, published by satumaa*kustantamo in
collaboration with Magasin 3
2008 We Did Everything Wrong, book, published by Färgfabriken for
the exhibition Teleport Färgfabriken
2008 Hum Compilation, audio CD-R, produced by Nordic Sound Art in collaboration
with Christina Kubisch
2007 Me&You (Nanna Hellberg and Christopher West), audio CD, released
by My Recordings
2007 KKH 1 Lock Grooves, 7” vinyl single, released by Royal Records
in collaboration with CM von Hausswolff
GRANTS
2008 Royal University College of Fine Arts EE-scholarship for artistic
development research
2008 Fredrika Brémer Foundation
2007 Hähnels Foundation
2007 Gustaf and Ida Unmans Foundation